Thursday, Dec 07, 2006

BEIRUT (Zawya Dow Jones)--Dubai Properties will develop a real estate project called Mudun in five Middle Eastern cities for a cost of between 30 billion U.A.E. dirhams ($8.1 billion) and AED40 billion, the Dubai-based Al Bayan daily reported Thursday.

Shihab Lutfi, development manager at Dubai Properties, said that the project will cover 74 million square feet across Cairo, Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad and Marakesh.

Newspaper Web site: http://www.albayan.ae

-By Beirut Bureau, Zawya Dow Jones; +961 1 985 757; BeirutZDJ@zawya.com

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